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Note: Find A Grave Memorial# 100999146 Tombstone not found, in the old section of this cemetery, many stones are too weathered to read.
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www.familysearch.org -- Harrison Co., OH Marriages, 1789-2013, pg. 522: License for John Manbeck, Jr. to Lettice A. McAfee issued Aug. 3, 1862. Mr. John Manbeck Jr. and Miss Letticia A. McAfee were married Aug 7, 1862 by Rev. Isaac G. Saddler. Filed Aug. 12, 1862.
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www.familysearch.org -- Harrison Co., OH Birth Records, pgs. 104-105: for Tacy S. Manbeck b. Feb. 13, 1873; mother: Lettice Amanda McAfee, father: John Manbeck, Jr.
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Lettice was believed to be living with her grandparents as a baby and listed with them on the 1850 & 1860 censuses. This is probably due to the death of her mother.
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From David Shiltz: Both may be buried at the New Rumley U. B. Cemetery. When I read the stones in that cemetery in about 1978, I did it on a windy day and during intermittent showers. I used an audio tape recorder and read the names and dates on the stones. The wind at times made it difficult to interpret what I had read. In Row 2, I noted Jacob Markley and children. I identified the next stone as Sarah J. wife of John Manbeck, Jr. but I put a questions mark after that, and indicated she died either in 1864 or 1861. Next I listed Lettice, wife of John Manbeck, Jr., and I had a question mark after that. I had her age as 32 but I was very uncertain about that. On the next stone I could not read the name all, but I listed the death as 1896 at age 74, and I wondered if this were John Manbeck, Jr.
The 1996 reading of the cemetery by the Harrison County Genealogical Society lists after the Jacob Markley children Sara J. Markley and has no dates. They read the next stone as Hetta A. Shambaugh, again no dates but "wife of M. Shambaugh." Hetta, however, is also listed beside Michael in row 14. Next is recorded John Markley, d 21 Feb 1896, age 74 y 11 m 14 d, followed by Mar_ A. Markley, d 13 Dec. 1893, age 66 y 2 m 4 d. Those latter two are marked with an asterisk, indicating that the listing in Hanna's Historical Collections was used, and Hanna, we know, listed the graves in alphabetical order. Because I had read Lettice on a stone, I suggest that they are, infact, the graves of John Manbeck, Jr., and his two wives, Sarah J. and Lettice.
John Manbeck, Jr. m. 7 Aug 1862 (2) Lettice A. McAfee, b 1846, d 1882, daughter of James McAfee, Jr., and Letta Gordon. Lettice McAfee's stepmother was Margaret Hendricks Atkinson, a Webster descendant, but Lettice was brought up in the home of her McAfee grandparents in the house in New Rumley where George Armstrong Custer had been born. After the death of her grandparents, Lettice and husband John Manbeck, Jr., lived in the Custer birthplace.
John Manbeck, Jr. had two children in his first marriage and four in the second. Living with Sarah Jane and John in 1860 was 11 year old John Swales, an orphaned son of Sarah Jane's Aunt Mary Ann (Heidy-Faulkner-Sherman) Swales.
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Henry Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio, 977.1 H6292 v. 1, pg. 898. In the chapter on Harrison County, includes Henry Howe's account of being in New Rumley, I think in about 1886. (Note: John Manbeck's house was the birthplace of Gen. George Custer.) "Custer's birthplace in the early part of this century, 1820, was a log tavern, kept by one Andrew Thompson. It was clapboarded fifty years ago. It is brown, going to decay, some clapboards off, and others hanging by a single nail. Locust trees stand before it; their fragile leaves tremble in the softest zephyrs. I borrowed a backless chair and drew the pretty scene shown, with the conical spire of the "You Bees" in the distance. [The book includes the sketch.]
"Having made the sketch, I went to the house. Some women were sitting in the front groom, sewing and chatting, passing away their lives in simpicity and comfort apparently, with little possessions and little cares. They were simply clad. There was no bric-a-brac about to dust, no card basket for calling visitors. No splendid equipage with liveried footman and gaily attired vistorys had ever called to inspire jealousy and create heartaches up to that door, but the air was pure, and on June days it oft
came in laden with the fragrance of new-mown hay."
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